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Of Relations and the Dead: Four Societies Viewed from the Angle of Their Exchanges

Of Relations and the Dead: Four Societies Viewed from the Angle of Their Exchanges

Barraud, Cecile
De Coppet, Daniel
Iteanu, Andre

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Series: Explorations in Anthropology

AnthropologyDeath & Dying

ISBN10: 1859730469
ISBN13: 9781859730461
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 4 1994
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.44
Height: 1.34 Width: 5.36 Depth: 8.41
Language: English
Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as totalities but also helps to frame a comparative mode of analysis expressed in terms of a hierarchy of values. Starting with a comparative analysis of the different vocabularies used when dealing with exchange, the authors go on to provide a detailed account of how each society's exchanges form a genuine value-oriented system. Their conclusions shed light on important issues in anthropology such as the difference between subject and object; the construction of the person in the matrix of social relations; and the contrast between 'socio-cosmic' systems and other societies which recognize a universal term of reference beyond their community.

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